Winners and Losers and Who Knows Whosers

'Round and 'round we go, rarely getting a straight answer, and never knowing what it takes to get ch-ch-changes.

Take EBAY. Here's a blatant fraud doing one of those stupid "I'll e-mail you dirty photos I stole off the Internet, and I'll pretend I'm the girl" auctions.

The item's removed. So the seller re-ups...UNDER TWO DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS. Ebay is astonished. "Er, uh, it's the same photo, the same seller location, and, yup, these accounts are both owned by the same person."

A day later and BOTH of these blatant ads are still running. The creep selling this penny ante shit isn't even pretending it's legal. Under each seller name, the ad is the same, a defiant "hurry up, this is illegal shit" shout. Hurry up and BUY. Like he's gonna be knocked off but come back with more aliases like a Dutch Douche on Blogspot? Is he surprised his fucking auctions are STILL up? I should be surprised but I'm not.

Ebay removed the auction once. The guy put it up twice more, and what, they figured they might as well give up and ignore it?

They'll stop it tomorrow?

Are they saying, "Hmm, don't do anything, let's have a meeting, show the boss both auctions, and see if he decides the accounts should be suspended..."

Whatever is going on, nothing is going on. Too often that remains the case.

You have to give thanks that there's any sanity in this psycho world, and any report gets action. How nice that a Kickstarter jerk got suspended:

Yes, it's GONE. But to show you that one hand is wanking and the other is wedged up the ass, this one was reported and when nothing happened for two days, it was reported directly to the company's troubleshooting team.

Yes, Kickstarter replied today around noon, having gotten the complaint the night before.

Should I be thankful they responded quickly and didn't take another 48 hours?

No, not when THE QUESTION WAS LEFT UNANSWERED.

"Gary" didn't address the question: how long does it take for a complaint to be processed??

"Gary" didn't also didn't say, "I looked at the link, and I agree. This campaign is a stupid prank, and if it's not gone by tomorrow I'll personally make sure it's removed." Nah.

It's always a coin flip over whether any action will be taken, or if the correct action will be taken.

Yesterday Cosby was left on the hook in a case where a a legal decision and conclusion was made ten years ago, to the satisfaction of everyone, including the prosecution. Go figure.

This morning I mentioned that at least the big dummy De Blasio was getting the City Council to vote on the Carriage Horse bill on Friday. It was in the paper, right?

The late edition: CARRIAGE HORSE BILL CANCELED.

What? The City Council, a bunch of mice, caved in? With less than a day before the vote?

The excuse is that a union...a bunch of fucking ignorant TEAMSTERS, backed out. They suddenly decided they didn't like the bill after all. How come they ok'd it and everybody was set for the mere formality of a vote? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS.

For some reason the city is afraid to do anything that a union doesn't like. A bunch of ignorant slobs who spend their day whipping horses and making them plod through the park, can dictate to the mayor and the city council. Amazing.

The New York Times, after blabbering about how the deal was dead, and not likely to ever be passed, then gave some backstory. They mentioned celebrities for and against the carriage horse ban, and ultimately quoted a dirty Irish drunk.

That's right Mickey McPotato Head, have yourself a fucking BEER. That's all you Irish swine ever do, beside beat your wives with a stick. "It's a great day" for ignorance is what it is.

What horse shit. Civilization? Who'd believe that in the 21st Fucking Century, barbaric insanity like horse drawn carriages would still be viewed as a lovely time? That idiots would still be fox hunting? That fat nigga bitches like Aretha Franklin would still be calling for a hundred animals to be killed so her fat ass could be covered in fur? That Arab monkeys would be demanding the whole world bow down to Allah? That Africa would still be the backward country where women and children are murdered in the street by some bunch of maniacs called Procol Harum? That Arab countries would still sexually mutilate most of their women and India would still give a misdemeanor jail sentence to a gang of murdering rapists?

So once in a while a blatant moron getting frisky on Kickstarter gets his ass kicked.

And once in a while (but not at the moment) some twat gets wiped off eBay.

You just never know if things are secure or if the inmates have gotten the keys to the asylum. And, Edgar, you don't fucking know if you're talking to Doctor Tarr or Professor Fether.